After suffering through a scoreless first half, Kai scored the second goal in Sky Blue FC's 2-0 win over Santa Clara, Calif.-based FC Gold Pride at Yurcak Field Wednesday night in Sky Blue's last home game of the regular season in front of a sell-out crowd of 5,455.

"The ball was coming, skipping to me, and I just needed one crack at it," Kai said. "(When it went in), I was just like, 'Thank goodness. Thank goodness.'"

With the win, Sky Blue (7-7-5, 26 points) moved into a tie for third in the WPS standings with the Washington Freedom, which it meets on Saturday in Germantown, Md. in the season finale for both teams. The Boston Breakers (7-8-4) are in fifth place, one point behind Sky Blue and Washington, with 25 points. The Breakers finish the season on Sunday against the Los Angeles Sol. The top four teams make the playoffs.

Kai had dribbled a breakaway attempt into the hands of opposing goalie Nicole Barnhart with 10 minutes left in the first half, the second goal she said she should have put away.

"Barney had some quick saves, but it's frustrating, being that you only get a few chances," Kai said. "I'm not Pele or anything, but I do what I can."

Rosana had Sky Blue's first goal less than a minute into the second half. She out-leapt her defender and headed in a cross from East Brunswick native Heather O'Reilly to break the scoreless tie.

While it was FC Gold Pride that ended up being shutout, it seemed likely Sky Blue might sustain the same fate. Kacey White nailed the post once. Kai was so close to finishing a corner-kick attempt that she had to hurdle the Shop Rite billboard five yards beyond the endline.

Point Pleasant native and Sky Blue sweeper Christie Rampone saw the field and frustration from a different perspective. Rampone took over as player-coach after Kelly Lindsey abruptly resigned on July 29, wearing a "C" armband with double meaning.

"I'm like, it'd be nice to just slip one in early on," Rampone said. "But, as a coach, you're thinking, at least we're getting those chances."

FC Gold Pride threatened three times in the second half. The first was on a breakaway shot from Christine Sinclair that flew just wide of the open net, the second on a free kick from the top of the box that soared high, and the last on a fast-moving cross that went untouched from one end of the goal box to the other.

But FC Gold Pride finished with just five shots and no corner kicks to Sky Blue's 20 shots and eight corners, as attempts were continuously muffled by the Sky Blue defense and Sky Blue goalie Karen Bardsley, a last-minute starter, who at one point swiped the ball off Gold Pride forward Rachel Buehler's foot.